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영어

The purpose of this study was to understand the meanings of married immigrant women' life experiences and their learning experiences in Korea. In this study, the researcher supposes the married immigrant women as active learning subjects. This study used narrative inquiry as a qualitative research methodology. The research participants were two women from Mongolia and Vietnam respectively. They did not get married through international matchmaking agencies, but married for love. The researcher used in-depth interview to gather the research data. In addition to this, the researcher referred to a lot of newspaper articles on married immigrant women like them. The collected data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis. The findings of this study suggests three insights: First, many factors such as meaningful past life experiences, learning experiences, dignity, identity, children of mixed parentage, adaptation volition, barriers to adaptation, etc. are complex, intertwined, and interactional. These factors have had significant influences on their life in Korea and bridged their past, present and future. Second, in the process of adaptation they have experienced a lot of things and constructed their own identities as Korean too. They have refused themselves as marginalized people, and finally recovered their biographicity as self-willed subjects. And third, it is considered that learning is a indispensible tool in surviving a new surroundings. To the married immigrant women, learning is assumed as an essential device for biological and social survival in Korea. With a variety of learning experiences, finally they got to be independent subjects not dependent objects.

한국어

근래 우리나라도 국제결혼을 통한 ‘이주의 여성화’ 현상을 경험하고 있다. 이 연구에서는 국제결혼 중개업체를 통하지 않고 자유연애로 결혼하여 한국에 이주한 여성들이 한국이라는 낯선 환경에서 학습의 주체자로 자신들의 삶과 학습경험을 어떻게 이해하고 해석하는지를 내러티브 분석을 통해 탐색하였다. 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 국제결혼 이주여성들의 한국에서의 삶은 그들이 그들의 모국에서 경험했던 과거와 개인적 및 사회적 차원에서 연계되었다. 둘째, 그들의 내러티브를 구성하는 핵심요소들은 낯선 문화 및 환경과의 상호작용을 통해 얻은 생생한 경험들과 자신의 정체성 등 다양한 요소들로 구성된다. 셋째, 이들은 학습을 자신의 삶의 경험에 대한 이해와 해석, 그리고 세계에 대한 의미구성에서 의식적이든 무의식적이든 낯선 사회문화적 환경에서의 생존에 필수적인 수단으로 인식한다.